Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.